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Its probably pretty close to even these days, especially when they shrink the Cell chips and the video card relatively soon.



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MikeB said:
It's one of the cheapest and best Blu-Ray players around and offers so much more!

From a technological perspective you get a great deal at current PS3 pricing.

 

Case study of the sony fan: Notice how the PS3 fan starts and finishes with praising the PS3, even though it was completely irrelevant to the question :) He/She didn't ask for an advertisement, just the cost of producing.

On topic: I don't think anyone would know outside of sony, we can all take guesses and that's about it really. My guess is that right now each PS3's selling price ensures that it's either breaking even or making a bit of money on the actual production cost of that one console. Where it turns into a Net Loss is when you include all the R&D originally for the PS3 and establishing the production facilities/outsourcing to another company in order to build the darn thing.



Around $400 though the yen is higher than the dollar so it costs more. At launch it was $800+ to make.



about 400$ in january 2008.



Around $300.



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Around $400.



My guess would be 450!



It cost $400 for Sony to manufacture a PS3 back in January so with the constantly lowering prices of components and the new SKUs, it probably costs Sony between $350 and $375 to manufacture PS3s nowadays.

That's right people, Sony's making money with every system sold. Let the word be known.



at release,about $800
now, around $550


think they loosing about $130 each console for the least



Provide proof to anyone stating the costs of Ps3 as fact.